Oatcake-lovers got the chance to try their favourite Potteries delicacy filled with a variety of unusual fillings - from chickpeas and feta cheese to olives, beans and avacado.

Visitors to the Spode Museum, in Stoke, were given free oatcakes filled with tempting vegetarian and vegan flavours from around the world on Sunday to mark the conclusion of National Vegetarian Week.

The menu was put together by workers from Spode and included Indian, Mexican and Mediterranean-inspired dishes such as the 'Clayton Cassoulet' - a mixture of shallots, tomatoes, beans and chilli - and 'Indian Sporting' which had lentils, spinach, mustard and fennel in it.

Spode manager Michael Escolme said: "I am a vegetarian and this event was an ideal opportunity for us to try and broaden people's ideas of what should go onto their oatcakes, because there's more to them than bacon and cheese.

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"We had fun creating the menu and tried to tie them in with some of the Spode patterns when we could."

Jayne Fair is seen cooking the oatcakes on the rocket stove (Image: Stoke Sentinel)

Jan Roberts works part-time at Spode but is also heavily involved with FoodFest - an organisation which works to highlight the issues of food waste, food poverty and sustainability.

She said that around 120 veggie oatcakes were handed out as part of the celebration.

The 63-year-old of Clayton, added: "This is something that both Michael and I are passionate about. As vegetarians, we like to encourage people to try alternative, health and tasty food and after being given some funding from The Vegetarian Society to do this event, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity.

"I eat these kinds of foods on a daily basis so it has been nice to see non-vegetarians coming back for more."